Friday, January 11, 2013

Gluten-Free January - Week 3 Menu Plans

Onto the third week of gluten-free eating!

If you're taking the challenge, how have your first two weeks gone?

As for me, I haven't noticed too many changes with my digestion. I'm still having plenty of GERD-related incidents. I'm also tired a lot, though I'm not sure if that has anything to do with a diet change (it could just be going back to work after three weeks off, lol). I find myself craving some of my favorite gluten-full foods (pizza, pasta, brownies, etc.), but I'm too cheap to buy the gluten-free equivalents and I'm not craving them badly enough to give up on the gluten-free challenge (I take this as an excellent sign -- if I had attempted this at any other time in my life, I would have said screw it and eaten it anyway. The fact that I haven't means I'm actually exercising some willpower for probably the first time in my life).

As with the other menus, feel free to mix-and-match meals from this week's menu, as well as previous menus (trust me, I eat way more eggs, chicken, and Larabars than I put on the menus). If a recipe calls for vegetable or canola oil, substitute in a healthier, natural oil (olive, coconut, safflower, etc.). If a recipe calls for sugar, substitute raw honey, agave nectar, or pure maple syrup.

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Time for the legal mumbo jumbo. I am not a doctor, nor do I pretend to be. I am not a personal trainer, or a nutritionist, and neither are any of the people who guest post or comment on my blog (unless they specify differently). Nothing on this blog, or it's subsidiary Facebook groups should be taken as medical advise, and I am not liable for anything you do while listening to me :D Consult your physician before you engage in any new heath and fitness plan, just like I did.